Bees & The Bearable There are two people I

There are two people I would have loved to have met in order to understand the practice of Burmese photographers before my time: D

both physically and in our minds: “The nature of our official identity and place on paper is adopted and the one which is in our memory is fragmented

her beloved daughter

French artist Thomas Sauvin acquired an album produced in the early 1980s by an unknown Shanghai University photography student

Bees & The Bearable There are two people IChen Zhe's first series, The Bearable (2007 2010), is a reflective documentation of her dark, though occasionally euphoric, history of self inflicted harm. Chen continued to penetrate the psychological labyrinth of self realisation in her subsequent project Bees (2010 2012). By expanding her photographic observations with a collection of letters, dairy entries, online chat histories, quote fragments and scribbles that she exchanged with her subjects,